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DART Asteroid Impact Seen From Ground Observatory And Cubesat
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...
Massive Solar Storm Unleashes Mysterious New Radiation Belts
A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...
Next-Gen Space Repair: Using CubeSats for Precision Servicing Missions
To make space servicing safer and more efficient, researchers created a fuel-efficient, collision-free trajectory ...
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NASA Releases 2024 Small Spacecraft Technology Report
The Small Spacecraft Technology State-of-the-art report was published by the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute based ...
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'It was a miracle.' Amazing tales of dead spacecraft that came back to life
Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...
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U-M astronomy will lead its first satellite mission with NASA grant
STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry—and will showcase the viability of a new technique for studying ...
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Earth grew an extra, never-before-seen 'radiation belt' after last year's supercharged solar storm — and it's probably still there
Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...
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Resurrected NASA Spacecraft Makes an Unexpected Discovery in the Aftermath of an Aurora-Inducing Solar Storm
Scientists reveal the discovery of two new temporary radiation belts encircling the Earth created by a massive solar storm in ...
Scientists Are Getting Closer to a Better Source of Rocket Fuel: Good Ol’ Water
Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.
New research sheds light on using multiple CubeSats for in-space servicing and repair missions
As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft to reach them safely. Researchers are developing a ...
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University of Michigan Astronomy Department Will Lead its First Space Mission in 2029
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor reports the first space mission led by the U-M Department of Astronomy is scheduled ...
Remember the northern lights that reached Florida? The solar storm created radiation belts around Earth
The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...